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US President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after signing executive orders, including on AI, in the Oval Office at the White House on April 23. Photo: EPA-EFE
Technology

Opinion | Beware the hubris of an AI narrative centred on the US and China

It would be a mistake to neglect the agency of states, multinational organisations and powerful firms not fully aligned with either side.

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Artificial intelligence

From meows to Mandarin: Baidu submits patent for AI animal translation

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DeepSeek

DeepSeek’s new maths-solving model is generating buzz, but mostly about R2

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Artificial intelligence

DeepSeek quietly updates open-source model that handles maths proofs

The Chinese start-up has released the Prover-V2 model a day after Alibaba released Qwen3, and ahead of an anticipated release of DeepSeek-R2.

DeepSeek’s quiet release of its latest open-source model for maths proofs comes amid a flurry of releases from Chinese AI firms. Photo: AFP
Xiaomi

Smartphone giant Xiaomi unveils AI model, joining fierce competition in China

Xiaomi says its open-source MiMo reasoning model, trained completely in-house, rivals the performance of OpenAI’s o1-mini and Alibaba’s QwQ-32B.

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Science

Senior AI scientist Alex Lamb once shrugged off China. Now he’s joining Tsinghua

Lamb has trained under a Turing Award winner and worked at top companies such as Microsoft, Amazon and Google’s DeepMind.

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Semiconductors

Tencent, Alibaba buy Nvidia GPUs from ByteDance stockpile, report says

ByteDance’s rivals are acquiring some of its US$13.7 billion worth of Nvidia’s H20 chips, which are now barred from export to China.

Nvidia’s graphics processing units have become a hot commodity in China as US restrictions on the technology increase. Photo: Nvidia

China to harness nation’s resources to AI self-reliance ambitions

President Xi Jinping tells Politburo the country must redouble efforts to overcome bottlenecks in core technology.

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Artificial intelligence

Flurry of Chinese AI updates come amid tightening Nvidia restrictions

Alibaba, Baidu, ByteDance and Tencent have introduced updates to AI agents and visual applications in recent days.

Huawei

Huawei to roll out AI chips this year as potential alternative to Nvidia’s H20

US export restrictions are expected to accelerate China’s push for self-reliance, including efforts to shift the chip supply chain onshore.

The Huawei logo is seen on a smartphone screen with an AI chip visual representation behind. Photo: Shutterstock Images
Artificial intelligence

Alibaba’s AI cancer detection tool clears FDA hurdle for faster approval process

The tech giant’s Damo Academy secured a “breakthrough device” designation from the US regulator for its pancreatic cancer-detecting AI model, Damo Panda.

A computed tomography scanner at Shenzhen United Family Hospital in Shenzhen on May 30, 2024. Site: Edmond So
DeepSeek

DeepSeek unveils new AI reasoning method amid anticipation for R2 model

In collaboration with Tsinghua University, DeepSeek developed a technique combining reasoning methods to guide AI models towards human preferences.

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Alibaba

Alibaba’s Qwen3 AI model coming this month, sources say

The latest upgrade to the Qwen family of models will include a mixture-of-experts version and one with just 600 million parameters for mobile devices.

Microsoft

Microsoft shutters AI lab in Shanghai, continuing China retreat

The IoT & AI Insider Lab in the Zhangjiang hi-tech zone likely closed in January or February, nearby workers say.

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Microsoft has closed its research lab in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang hi-tech zone, and has already removed its logo from the entrance. Photo: Wency Chen
Science

How AI revolution at a Chinese coal mine is making profits soar

China’s Dahaize Mine is rewriting the playbook on how a coalfield operates as automation takes centre stage.

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Liang Yunfeng inspects smart machines at a Dahaize underground coal mine. Photo: Journal of Intelligent Mine
Alibaba

Alibaba launches AI model that can process images and video on the go

The multimodal Qwen2.5-Omni-7B model is designed to run locally on mobile devices and tops rivals in some benchmarks.

Artificial intelligence

Alibaba chairman Joe Tsai questions AI’s limits, casts doubt on humanoid robots

Speaking at Alibaba’s Jumpstarter event, the entrepreneur said much of what humans value is not captured in training data.

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Artificial intelligence

Ant Group’s use of local GPUs, not Nvidia, cuts AI model training costs by 20%

The fintech affiliate of Alibaba said its Ling-Plus-Base model can be ‘effectively trained on lower-performance devices’.

Ant Group’s latest research into AI development places it among domestic firms such as DeepSeek and ByteDance in the search for more efficient ways to train and run models. Photo: Shutterstock
Science

AI expert Guo-Jun Qi leaves US for China

After a decade in America, a leading computer scientist has returned to China to head a top artificial intelligence lab.

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Artificial intelligence

AI reasoning rivals: Tencent touts new model’s performance over DeepSeek-R1

The tech giant’s latest offering leverages large-scale reinforcement learning, rivalling DeepSeek in top benchmark tests.

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Science

Chinese AI team wins global award for replacing Nvidia GPU with industrial chip

Win for video-generation AI model based on off-the shelf chip marks a first for China and a shift in global race to optimise AI hardware.

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The breakthrough by Chinese scientists may redefine how industries deploy cost-effective, energy-efficient AI systems, from robotic controls to autonomous vehicles. Photo: Shutterstock
Art

Can AI-driven art offer real social commentary? This artist thinks so

Inhwa Yeom uses XR and AI to create artworks offering social commentary; catch her at the Hong Kong Arts Centre’s ‘Future Tense’ exhibition.

Inhwa Yeom uses XR and AI to create artworks offering social commentary; catch her at the Hong Kong Arts Centre’s “Future Tense” exhibition. Photo: courtesy Inhwa Yeom
Hong Kong science and tech

Round table: what can women in STEM do to lead change?

PostMag hosted a discussion between 5 Hong Kong-based innovators blazing a trail: Florence Chan, Angela Wu, Wendy Lam, Gina Jiang and Megan Lam.

Science

Chinese scientists build world’s first AI chip made of carbon

Chinese researchers have developed a chip that it could be a game-changer in modern computing.

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Alibaba

Alibaba rolls out AI model that it claims beats DeepSeek, OpenAI

Alibaba says its QwQ-32B AI model outperforms DeepSeek’s R1 in coding and problem solving while using fewer resources.

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Alibaba shares have surged in Hong Kong after it introduced its latest AI reasoning model. Photo: AFP
Artificial intelligence

Top scientist urges China to develop alternative to Nvidia software

Li Guojie, a computer scientist from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, also suggests that OpenAI may be hitting the scaling wall.

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Nvidia produces the world’s most popular AI chips. Photo: EPA-EFE
Artificial intelligence

My Take | After DeepSeek, China gets a leg up in the quest for human-level AI

Will artificial general intelligence (AGI) arrive with a bang or quietly evolve? The answer may have implications in the US-China tech race.

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DeepSeek

The secret sauce of DeepSeek’s AI success: liberal arts graduates

DeepSeek’s AI magic lies in its unique blend of literary expertise and advanced algorithms, former employees and industry experts say.

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